Question: How to create and maintain a very simple project that has few tasks in my Ubuntu laptop (or) Are there any other methods to take notes and organize ideas instead of using the inbuilt Text Editor that comes with Ubuntu? Answer: Tomboy Notes is the notes maintaining mechanism gets ported with Ubuntu by default. [...]
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Question: Firefox 3 is very slow on my Ubuntu. How do I fix it? Some of the symptoms are — Scrolling on a web page is very sluggish, running flash on Firefox is slow, watching YouTube videos on Firefox is slow. Answer: Try one of the following suggestions, which may solve the Firefox running slow [...]
Regular expression is always a tricky subject for programmers and sysadmins. When you are dealing with lot of text handling, understanding how to use Reg-ex effectively is essential. It is hard to remember the syntax of reg-ex on top of your head all the times. Regular Expressions Cookbook is written by the Reg-Ex Jedi Master [...]
PuTTY is hands-down the best SSH client for Windows. It’s light-weight with a single putty.exe file and nothing else to install. A while back we wrote about 12 powerful PuTTY software add-ons and explained how PuTTY connection manager can help you to organize PuTTY SSH sessions in tabs. In this article, let us review 10 [...]
Question: How do I open Firefox browser (or any application) automatically when I login to Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? Answer: In gnome you can do this by using the gnome-control-center (or) directly from the “Startup Application Preferences” as explained in this article. Step 1: Go to “Startup Application Preferences” in Ubuntu Go to System -> [...]
Question: How to enable automatic login in Ubuntu or Kubuntu ? Answer: You can enable auto login in Ubuntu using the following 3 simple steps. Please understand that it is not security best practices to enable the automatic login. Do this only if you are in a controlled environment and very confident that nobody will [...]
Forgot your MySQL root user password? Don’t worry. We are here for rescue. When you tried to login to root without entering a password, you may get ‘Access Denied’ message, as MySQL is expecting a password. This article explains how to recover mysql root password by setting a new MySQL password when you don’t remember [...]
Gmail is the best thing that happened since sliced bread. That may sound like an over statement. If you really think about it, Gmail definitely has changed the way how we manage emails. Without Gmail, I cannot imagine processing 100’s of emails effectively every day without breaking a sweat. In this article let us review [...]